Project to repository relationship, is it 1-to-1?
Added by Randy Syring almost 15 years ago
I am trying to understand how projects relate to subversion repositories. Does each project have to map to a repository or can I map a project to a path in a repository?
I.e. I have an existing repository with lots of stuff in it:
https://svn.mydomain.com/svn/webdev/customers/...
I have a single customer "mycustomer" that I would like to setup a project for in redmine. Can I set the project's repository to:
https://svn.mydomain.com/svn/webdev/customers/mycustomer
or do I need to export everything to a new repository and then use that, i.e.:
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RE: Project to repository relationship, is it 1-to-1?
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Added by Randy Syring almost 15 years ago
Got the answer on IRC:
(6:14:08 PM) rcscomp: I am trying to understand how projects relate to subversion repositories. Does each project have to map to a repository or can I map a project to a path in a repository? (6:15:36 PM) edavis10: rcscomp: depends on which repository type you use. (6:15:43 PM) rcscomp: svn (6:16:04 PM) edavis10: rcscomp: svn can point to any part of the svn repository. So you can pick a path that isn't the root. (6:16:57 PM) rcscomp: edavis10: awesome. I assume that makes project creation easy as its just another directory in the tree. Is there any downsides to that method? (6:18:31 PM) edavis10: rcscomp: project creation? (6:19:25 PM) rcscomp: edavis10: yah, like if I want a new project for a customer. I just create a new subversion directory then assign that path to the project in redmine, right? (6:19:45 PM) edavis10: rcscomp: yea, that could work. (6:19:46 PM) rcscomp: If I have something wrong, let me know. I just started working with Redmine yesterday. (6:20:08 PM) edavis10: rcscomp: I perfer to have separate repos for each project but that's because I use git and I try to keep data separate. (6:20:40 PM) edavis10: rcscomp: you can also enable the svn creation scripts. That will make Redmine create svn repositories for you automatically (one repo per Redmine project) (6:22:28 PM) rcscomp: edavis10: I am trying to use redmine to manage customer projects/tasks. So I would like to have a customer respository for our customers and then projects to represent large customer projects. Given the number of customer projects we will have, I think a repository per project might be overkill.